Theodor Boveri (lawyer)

Theodor Boveri (* 1785 in Bamberg , Upper Franconia ; † 1854 ibid) was a royal Bavarian lawyer and government official . He was the first bath commissioner (spa director) in Bad Kissingen .

Life

Boveri came from an originally Italian family of civil servants who came to Bamberg via Savoy in the 17th century . He began his professional career around 1809 as a second assessor at the regional court in riding book near Augsburg . By 1813 he was already the first assessor at the Pleinfeld Regional Court . On July 18, 1819, he was transferred as the first assessor to the district court in Nuremberg .

In 1823 he was transferred to Bad Kissingen as a district judge, succeeding Georg Friedrich Conrad , where he remained in office for 13 years until 1835. In the last years of this term of office, but officially in 1835 at the latest, he was also given the newly created office of royal bath commissioner for the state bath there . He was thus the first spa director of this spa town, which later became a " world spa". Boveri's task was to convince the residents of Kissingen of the expected advantages of an increasing health resort. It was also he who handed over the entire bathing business to professional private hands and from March 1, 1824, leased it to the Bolzano brothers . During Boveri's tenure, the streets in the town, which was still characterized by agriculture, were repaved and the already dilapidated walls and watchtowers of the town fortifications were torn down. The razing of the medieval fortifications was supposed to give the small town "a free draft, its buildings a wide view and the strangers a more pleasant sight" . During his term of office, the new building of the district court building on Oberen Marktstrasse also fell in 1827, after the building on Zwingergasse, built in 1804 when his predecessor Georg Friedrich Conrad took office , had become too small. His successor in office in Bad Kissingen was Hans Carl Freiherr von Thüngen in 1835 .

On February 26, 1835, Boveri moved to the Bamberg II district court as chairman at his own request. There, after another 13 years, he was retired in 1848.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Royal Bavarian Government Gazette , 1809, column 453 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Yearbooks of Justice in Baiern , Volume 1, 1813, page 67 ( digitized version )
3. ^ General intelligence sheet for the Kingdom of Baiern from August 4, 1819, column 636 ( digitized version )
4. ^ Conrad was the first royal judge in Bad Kissingen
5. ↑ Hanns Klüber: Royal judges and bath commissioners in Kissingen (1804-1863) , in: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen 801-2001 , Bad Kissingen city archive, TA Schachenmayer publishing house, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3 -929278-16-2 , page 202.
6. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen No. 135 from May 18, 1824, column 1534–1535 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ Today the district office is located on this property.
8. ↑ The old courthouse was used as a prison from 1827.
9. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria No. 7 of February 6, 1835, page 70 ( digitized version ). - In the same year, 1835, his brother Albert was transferred to the Bamberg Court of Appeal .